QA Analyst (Narrative)
Job Summary
What You Will Do
You will work within Narrative Design & Writing to ensure narrative content is functional cohesive and immersive across the entire player experience.
Feature QA
- Execute manual testing for all gameplay features validating functionality performance and player experience.
- Conduct regression integration and exploratory testing to ensure stability across builds.
- Document track and prioritize issues in JIRA providing clear and actionable feedback to developers and designers.
- Maintain detailed and up-to-date test cases and plans for all pod content.
Narrative QA
- Story Development Support: Review and validate Story Documents Outlines Breakdowns Capsules and Scripts for narrative consistency and logic.
- Character & World Documentation: Assist with QA passes on Character Bios Story Bibles Character Bibles (with Art) and Style Guides (with Design) to ensure alignment between writing design and art.
- Narrative Tools & Systems: Test Narrative Design Documentation Feature Wrappers Narrative Design Specs Presentation Decks for completeness and cross-discipline clarity.
- Implementation Testing: Validate Narrative Mission Flows 4X Branching Missions ARPG Branching Quests Dialogue Objectives and Script Implementation for correct triggers progression logic and localization integration.
- Player-Facing Copy QA: Ensure quality and tone consistency for in-game text including Character Ship Building and Location Descriptions Asset Naming and Ancillary text (Modals Strings Push Notifications).
- Narrative-as-a-Service Support: Collaborate with live-ops and content pods to QA ongoing narrative updates and Pod Support content.
- Cinematic & VO Support: Assist with Cutscene Blocking Barks Walk & Talks and Voiceover Direction verification (e.g. line delivery text/audio sync timing)
Requirements
- 2 years of QA experience within narrative-driven or content-heavy game projects with a strong focus on story validation dialogue systems or branching content.
- Deep understanding of narrative structure story logic and character consistency with the ability to identify pacing continuity or tonal discrepancies across multiple narrative assets.
- Familiarity with narrative tools and pipelines including script editors dialogue trees localization systems and in-engine narrative implementation workflows.
- Hands-on experience testing branching missions or quests ensuring progression logic objective triggers and player-choice outcomes function as intended.
- Strong attention to grammar tone and style with the ability to maintain consistent narrative voice across in-game text descriptions and UI copy.
- Experience working with localization and VO pipelines verifying text/audio synchronization subtitle accuracy and language integration.
- A passion for storytelling in games and an eye for narrative detail ensuring every piece of dialogue text and cinematic moment supports the player experience.
Benefits
- Full-time contract.
- Medical healthcare
- Multisport card.
- Stable employment and professional growth in an international environment.
- Informal and casual work atmosphere far from corporate standards.
- Friendly and open-minded teams.
- Chillout areas with free fruits and drinks arcades gaming consoles and board games.
Required Experience:
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About Company
We are a unique outsource partner with over 20 years experience providing award-winning QA Testing, Localization and Player Support services to entertain providers across the planet.